Digital Services For a Better State and Local Government

Digital services are essential to improving state and local government-constituent service delivery as well as making the jobs of internal personnel easier. Learn how software-based engagement platforms can also help governments transform and connect with citizens and businesses in new ways.

The Journey to Good IT Investments

Picking the right IT investments is important for better constituent engagement and citizen satisfaction – and the government is taking note. For example, the President’s fiscal 2016 budget proposal increases IT spending to over $86 billion. Moreover, the budget requests $105 million to create digital service delivery teams at agencies. If government is going to beRead… Read more »

6 Stages of an Email that Works

You’ve got mail! While other forms of citizen engagement often get a lot of hype, the real killer app is email. But just because email is the killer app doesn’t mean government always knows the best ways to take advantage of its power. But you are in luck, because we have uncovered the six stagesRead… Read more »

Excelling With Community Planning

As state and local government employees, you face some tough IT obstacles. You have to build digital solutions to meet constituent demand, and design IT systems and architectures to support new services – all in an environment of tight budgets and limited staff. But by conquering these challenges, you can improve the community planning andRead… Read more »

How to Create Great Government Customer Service

GovLoop has partnered with RightNow to produce a variety of resources to help you and your organization excel in customer service. Excelling in customer service is no easy task, and with resources like the GovLoop/RightNow Excelling with Customer Service Guide, the Customer Service Hub and the infographic below, GovLoop and RightNow will help you masterRead… Read more »

How Many Open Government Projects Are There?

We’ve got a great Open Gov story (and tool) for you! Last year, former Deputy CTO for Open Government Beth Noveck reached out to GovLoop Founder Steve Ressler about leveraging the energy of community members to complete a gargantuan task: read through all of the Open Government Plans and compile a list of the hundredsRead… Read more »

10 Tips for Letting Federal Employers Know Your Worth

Two weeks ago, I unveiled a sweet infographic that GovLoop commissioned to spice up some of the resources available at the USAJOBS Info Center. In case you missed it, here’s a link: 4 Winning Tips for a Successful Job Interview In that post, I promised that we would share two more. Well, here’s 2 outRead… Read more »